Front Page / Titelseite
For the second time this year – and the 10th overall since entering service in 2012 – Vega has successfully launched a payload from the Spaceport, with this lightweight vehicle’s latest…
Europe’s Vega rocket lifted off from the ZLV Launch Site at the Guiana Space Center at 1:58:33 UTC on August 2, 2017 – heading off on a multi-orbit mission with a pair of Israeli-built…
Die leichtgewichtige Rakete hat die beiden Überwachungssatelliten OPTSAT-3000 und Venus am Dienstag in die sonnensynchrone Umlaufbahn gebracht. Seit der Inbetriebnahme 2012 war es der…
NASA is in an awkward in-between time right now. Since the beginning of the space age, the agency has had the ability to send its astronauts into space. The first American to go to space,…
Soyuz Launches to the International Space Station With Expedition 52/53 Crew (With video) “ About four minutes prior to launch, the space station flew over the launch site and was flying…
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying a crew of three linked up with the International Space Station on Friday (July 28), doubling the orbiting lab’s population and kicking off a five-month mission…
Russia’s trusted Soyuz FG rocket blasted off at sunset on Friday, thundering off on a nine-minute climb into orbit with a three-man crew from Russia, the U.S. and Italy.
The Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft docked to the International Space Station at 5:54 p.m. EDT while both spacecraft were flying over Germany. Aboard the space station, Expedition 52 Commander…
A Russian Commander and Flight Engineers from the U.S. and Italy lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at sunset on Friday, riding a Soyuz FG rocket into orbit to embark on an express…
file image A three-man space crew from Italy, Russia and the United States on Friday arrived at the International Space Station for a five-month mission Friday. Footage broadcast by…
Wie die Raumfahrtbehörde Nasa mitteilte, sind nun wieder sechs Personen an Bord der internationalen Raumstation. Die Sojus-Rakete war zuvor vom kasachischen Weltraumbahnhof Baikonur aus…
Feature – Cassini’s Grand Finale
Cassini is one of the most ambitious efforts in planetary space exploration. A joint endeavour of NASA, ESA and the Italian space agency, Cassini is a sophisticated spacecraft exploring the…
The maximum speed clocked by Cassini was 98,346 mph (44 kilometers per second) relative to the sun on June 25, 1999. Relative to Saturn, the spacecraft reached 68,771 mph (30.7 kilometers…
After almost 20 years in space, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft begins the final chapter of its remarkable story of exploration: its Grand Finale. Between April and September 2017, Cassini will…
In Cassini’s Grand Finale orbits – the final orbits of its nearly 20-year mission – the spacecraft travels in an elliptical path that sends it diving at tens of thousands of miles per hour…
This week happened to include two of Cassini’s periapses, along with their associated close-in passages through Saturn’s equatorial ring plane, which occur once every 6.5 days. Each time,…
The Cassini spacecraft at Saturn recently observed a light show on the planet’s southern hemisphere: auroras, glittering in the gaseous atmosphere. Similar to auroras on Earth, Saturn’s…
Before the Cassini-Huygens mission, scientists weren’t sure how old Saturn’s rings are, what they’re made of, how they change, how thick they are, how fast they move, how big the ring…
Cassini is one of the most ambitious efforts in planetary space exploration. A joint endeavour of NASA, ESA and the Italian space agency, Cassini is a sophisticated spacecraft exploring the…
Saturn’s northern hemisphere reached its summer solstice in mid-2017.
This false-color view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft gazes toward the rings beyond Saturn’s sunlit horizon.
International Spacestation (ISS) /
Internationale Raumstation
Trio Ready to Begin Space Mission Lasting till Mid-December
It is less than one day before three new International Space Station crew members start a 4-1/2 month mission in space. The trio from Russia, United States and Italy will launch aboard the…
The Soyuz MS-05 spacecraft that will launch three new crew members to the International Space Station has rolled out to its launch pad in Kazakhstan. The rocket was carted slowly by train…
Russia’s trusted Soyuz FG rocket blasted off at sunset on Friday, thundering off on a nine-minute climb into orbit with a three-man crew from Russia, the U.S. and Italy.
Dieser dritte Raumflug Nespolis ist auch sein dritter Besuch auf der ISS. Während eines Flugs mit dem Space Shuttle 2007 und eines fünfmonatigen ISS-Aufenthalts 2011 hat er bereits 174…
The crew today researched ways to alleviate headaches and reverse bone loss in space to improve mission performance. Meanwhile, the station’s three newest residents also checked out station…
Die einzelnen Komponenten der Internationalen Raumstation ISS wurden mit Raumschiffen in den entsprechenden Orbit gebracht und dort montiert. Dadurch hatten sie zunächst einmal schon die…
Earth / Erde
ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite reveals the seasonal changes in Africa’s sub-Saharan Sahel, with the rainy season allowing vegetation to blossom between February (top) and September…
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Planet’s Flock 2E-8 Earth-imaging satellite re-entered the atmosphere on July 25, 2017 – decaying 14 months after being released from the International Space Station to join Planet’s…
Washington: A small asteroid that is expected to fly close to the Earth will provide NASA an opportunity to test its network of observatories and systems for planetary defense, scientists…
Beeindruckend! Die Satellitenaufnahme des Supertaifuns #Noru. Gesehen vom japanischen #Himawari8-Satellit (30.7 bis 31.7) #Erdbeobachtung https://t.co/wf09eLIEtR
Solar System / Sonnensystem
Die Venus wird oft als der Zwillingsplanet der Erde bezeichnet, da beide über eine ähnliche Größe, Oberflächenbeschaffenheit und ein komplexes Wettersystem verfügen. Mehr haben die…
In „Mars 2030,“ players get to land on the Red Planet, explore a realistic future habitat on the surface and dig into the history of the planet’s landmarks in immersive 3D. The game is…
Dawn’s mission is managed by JPL for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate’s Discovery Program, managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight…
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Juno is part of NASA’s New Frontiers…
Apart from Team Indus, a US team (Moon Express), an Israeli team (SpaceIL) and an international team (Synergy Moon) have also procured launch contracts. A PSLV rocket will take Team Indus’…
Beyond Solar System / Milchstraße & Kosmos
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The gravitational dance between two galaxies in our local neighbourhood has led to intriguing visual features in both as witnessed in this new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The…
The magnetic field of our Milky Way galaxy as seen by the Planck satellite, a European Space Agency mission with significant NASA contributions. This image was compiled from the first…
Politics / Politik
Roscosmos, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) all understand that if co-operation breaks down, it will seriously affect each other’s work, the head of Russia’s Federal Space Agency…
„Even Trump’s space policy adviser for his campaign and transition says getting a man or woman on the face of Mars by 2024 is virtually impossible. „I don’t think you’ll get there [to…
The United States is fuming over Iran’s successful test of a satellite-launch rocket, saying it appeared to be a violation of UN Security Council resolutions. „We consider that to be…
Technology / Technologie
Cameras on NASA exoplanet spacecraft slightly out of focus, Space News „NASA confirmed July 26 that the focus of the four cameras on the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)…
WASHINGTON – Cameras recently installed on a NASA spacecraft designed to look for nearby exoplanets will be slightly out of focus once launched, but the agency said that will not affect the…
SpaceX’s new megarocket, the massive Falcon Heavy, will make its launch debut in November, according to the company’s founder and CEO Elon Musk. In Twitter and Instagram statements late…
The temperature of Chamber A at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston is steadily dropping, creating a frigid environment for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope that is in stark contrast to…
James Webb Space Telescope
Jeff Bezos sure knows how to make an entrance. The billionaire Amazon CEO and founder of the private spaceflight company Blue Origin joined Instagram Thursday (July 20) in a truly novel…
space.comEntertainment / Unterhaltung
Spread the loveKaty Perry has reportedly been texting Buzz Aldrin ahead of her gig hosting the space-themed MTV Video Music Awards.
World / Welt
A rare gold model of an Apollo lunar module gifted to Neil Armstrong shortly after the first moon landing in 1969 has been stolen from the Ohio museum that bears the astronaut’s name….
WASHINGTON – An appropriations bill approved by a Senate committee July 27 would restore funding for several NASA Earth science missions slated for termination by the administration as well…
Der deutsche ESA-Astronaut Matthias Maurer im DLR-Interview Dr. Matthias Maurer wurde am 18. März 1970 in St. Wendel im Saarland geboren. Er bewarb sich 2008 in der letzten Runde des…
Iran this week launched its largest carrier rocket successfully for the first time, Iran’s official news agency reported on Thursday, marking a potential major step in the country’s ongoing…
Europe’s Vega rocket stands ready for a nighttime liftoff from the edge of the Amazon jungle Tuesday night carrying a pair of satellites built in Israel for operation by the Italian defence…
A Long March 3A rocket stage re-entered the atmosphere on July 18, 2017 after over one decade in orbit, making a very slow decay from a Medium Earth Transfer Orbit.
Science / Wissenschaft
Steps forward in the search for life beyond Earth can be as simple as sending a balloon into the sky. In one of the most unique and extensive eclipse observation campaigns ever attempted,…
Unglaubliche Weiten, ferne und fremde Welten, ungelöste Geheimnisse – unser faszinierendes Sonnensystem. Werden wir Leben auf dem Mars finden? Wie sieht es auf den Eismonden der großen…
Scientists using the ESA/NASA SOHO solar observatory have found long-sought gravity modes of seismic vibration that imply the Sun’s core is rotating four times faster than its surface.
Many rock stars don’t like to play by the rules, and a cosmic one is no exception. A team of astronomers has discovered that an extraordinarily bright supernova occurred in a surprising…
History / Geschichte
Das Deutsche Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) war federführend an beiden Missionen beteiligt: Die Projektleitung inklusive der Auswahl der wissenschaftlichen Experimente hatte die…
Ein Schrotthändler aus Pittsburgh staunte nicht schlecht, als er im Keller eines verstorbenen Ingenieurs auf 325 Magnetbandspulen und zwei gigantische Computer stieß. Noch überraschter…
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